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  2. Leanan sídhe - Wikipedia

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    The leannán sídhe (lit. ' fairy lover '; [1] Scottish Gaelic: leannan sìth, Manx: lhiannan shee; [lʲan̴̪-an ˈʃiː]) is a figure from Irish folklore. [2] She is depicted as a beautiful woman of the Aos Sí ("people of the fairy mounds") who takes a human lover.

  3. List of Shakugan no Shana characters - Wikipedia

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    The Denizen within Lamis is Rasen no Fuukin, who in the past went under the name Leanan-sidhe and assumed the form of a young girl who fell in love with a human painter, whose discovery of her eating humans may have caused her to stop eating them. After she was captured and imprisoned by a Crimson Lord, by the time she was released, the painter ...

  4. Aos Sí - Wikipedia

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    Aos sí (pronounced [iːsˠ ˈʃiː]; English approximation: / iː s ˈ ʃ iː / eess SHEE; older form: aes sídhe [eːsˠ ˈʃiːə]) is the Irish name for a supernatural race in Gaelic folklore, similar to elves.

  5. Biróg - Wikipedia

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    Biróg (Biroge of the Mountain, Birog), in Irish folklore is the leanan sídhe or the female familiar spirit of Cian who aids him in the folktale about his wooing of Balor's daughter Eithne. She is reinvented as a druidess in Lady Gregory and T. W. Rolleston's retellings.

  6. Sidhe (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Sidhe are Irish earthen mounds, ... Leanan sídhe, a beautiful fairy woman in Irish mythology who takes a human lover; Cat Sidhe or Cat sìth, ...

  7. The Ancient Magus' Bride - Wikipedia

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    Leanan Sídhe (リャナン・シー, Ryanan Shī) Voiced by: Saori Hayami [6] [7] (Japanese); Morgan Garrett [9] (English) A beautiful vampiric faerie who loves men and gives them talent at the cost of dying young. She had strong feelings for an old man named Joel Garland, but denied that they were in love as love would mean his inevitable death.

  8. Classifications of fairies - Wikipedia

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    Germanic lore featured light and dark elves (Ljósálfar and Dökkálfar).This may be roughly equivalent to later concepts such as the Seelie and Unseelie. [2]In the mid-thirteenth century, Thomas of Cantimpré classified fairies into neptuni of water, incubi who wandered the earth, dusii under the earth, and spiritualia nequitie in celestibus, who inhabit the air.

  9. Glas Gaibhnenn - Wikipedia

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    Mac Kineely had a leanan-sidhe (familiar sprite) by the name of "Biroge of the Mountain," and she would assist him in trying to vanquish Balor to recover the cow. This banshee was only able to sow the seeds of Balor's destruction, and it is not clear if the cow was ever recovered.